Oxford University Basketball Club

Profile - Blues Coach, Michael Causey
	Michael enters his second year as head coach after last year’s Blues finished 8-7, with a 7th place national ranking to end the season. The ambitions are set higher this year since the Blues return seven players, but the overall goal remains the same: to give players the opportunity to play and compete against the best teams in the UK, while at the same time, respecting their academic obligations. Michael’s fervor continues this season toward the precedence of academics over athletics in a university setting. A native of Murrayville , Georgia , Michael was a highly recruited player out of high school. His performance at the Nike All-American Camp in Indianapolis, Indiana led Slam Magazine to mention him as a player to watch in the future. The Sporting News listed him alongside Rashard Lewis ( Seattle ) as one of five possible sleepers to make the jump from high school to the NBA. Michael spent his senior year at New Hampton Prep, NH where his team finished 2 nd in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC). He earned 1 st team All- New England honors alongside teammate Darius Songaila, who recently signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls. Michael played for the Oxford Blues during the 2003-2004 season, but injured both shoulders right afterward forcing an abrupt end to his career. His younger brothers, Mark and Matt, have played at Duke and Georgetown , and are now playing for North Georgia College & State University with former Marjons star Anthony Rowe. Michael has an AB from Harvard College in Anthropology and an MPhil from Oxford University in Landscape Archaeology. He is currently a DPhil research student and a member of St. Hugh’s College. His research interests focus on the long-term environmental effects of pastoralism in East Africa. Pastoralists in East Africa are being pushed into confined areas due to demographic expansion and as these pressures continue, erosive environmental effects caused by humans may be exacerbated. Michael hopes that the combination of archaeology and computers will help determine what the long-term environmental effects of pastoralism might be and that eventually this research will lead to effective land-use management schemes for the protection of wildlife.

Profile - Blues Coach, Michael Causey

Michael enters his second year as head coach after last year’s Blues finished 8-7, with a 7th place national ranking to end the season. The ambitions are set higher this year since the Blues return seven players, but the overall goal remains the same: to give players the opportunity to play and compete against the best teams in the UK, while at the same time, respecting their academic obligations. Michael’s fervor continues this season toward the precedence of academics over athletics in a university setting.

A native of Murrayville , Georgia , Michael was a highly recruited player out of high school. His performance at the Nike All-American Camp in Indianapolis, Indiana led Slam Magazine to mention him as a player to watch in the future. The Sporting News listed him alongside Rashard Lewis ( Seattle ) as one of five possible sleepers to make the jump from high school to the NBA. Michael spent his senior year at New Hampton Prep, NH where his team finished 2 nd in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC). He earned 1 st team All- New England honors alongside teammate Darius Songaila, who recently signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls. Michael played for the Oxford Blues during the 2003-2004 season, but injured both shoulders right afterward forcing an abrupt end to his career. His younger brothers, Mark and Matt, have played at Duke and Georgetown , and are now playing for North Georgia College & State University with former Marjons star Anthony Rowe.

Michael has an AB from Harvard College in Anthropology and an MPhil from Oxford University in Landscape Archaeology. He is currently a DPhil research student and a member of St. Hugh’s College. His research interests focus on the long-term environmental effects of pastoralism in East Africa. Pastoralists in East Africa are being pushed into confined areas due to demographic expansion and as these pressures continue, erosive environmental effects caused by humans may be exacerbated. Michael hopes that the combination of archaeology and computers will help determine what the long-term environmental effects of pastoralism might be and that eventually this research will lead to effective land-use management schemes for the protection of wildlife.